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Mobile learning: still on its way!

Image: Macrovector_jpeg (2) Mobile learning is a current trend in the field of learning technologies. Mobile learning is learning that can be facilitated with the use of mobile devices and can take place anytime and anywhere. Paraphrasing the term digital native, first coined by education consultant Marc Prensky in his...

UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers

Image: Shutterstock/Viktoria Kazakova_jpeg Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been playing an increasingly significant role in education during the last years. There is a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. These abilities, defined as 21st century skills, are: critical...

Mobile technologies: App Inventor

Image: Shutterstock_Sentavio There is no doubt that information technologies have definitely changed our lives. Computational thinking and the mental process of algorithm creation have given rise to a whole new range of computing technologies such as programming languages, databases, network and internet technologies, mobile and cloud apps just to...